On October 15, 2012, the FDIC
published in the Federal Register (77 FR 62417) a final rule on
annual stress testing (Annual Stress Test Rule) that is applicable
to all state nonmember banks and state savings associations with
over $10 billion in total consolidated assets (covered banks)
pursuant to the requirements of section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank
Act Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank
Act). The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) issued
annual stress test final rules for their regulated entities near in
time to the FDIC's Annual Stress Test Rule. The regulations across
the banking agencies are consistent and comparable as required by
the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act stress testing requirements
apply to all covered banks (those with over $10 billion in total
consolidated assets), but the FDIC recognized that the stress tests
for covered banks with consolidated total assets of $50 billion or
more would be applied to more complex portfolios and therefore
warranted a broader set of reports to adequately capture the
results of the company-run stress tests. These reports necessarily
required more detail than would be appropriate for smaller, less
complex institutions. Therefore, in coordination with the other
Federal banking agencies, the FDIC specified separate reporting
templates: (1) for covered banks with total consolidated assets of
greater than $10 billion and less than$50 billion and (2) for
covered banks with total consolidated assets of $50 billion or
more. On April 14, 2014, the Federal Register published a final
rule by FDIC that will revise and replace the FDIC's risk-based and
leverage capital requirements to be consistent with agreements
reached by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in "Basel
III: A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and
Banking Systems" (Basel III). The revisions include implementation
of a new definition of regulatory capital, a new common equity tier
1 minimum capital requirement, a higher minimum tier 1 capital
requirement, and, additional requirements for banking organizations
subject to the Advanced Approaches capital rules. All banking
organizations that are not subject to the Advanced Approaches Rule
must begin to comply with the revised capital framework on January
1, 2015. In light of the finalization of the Basel III capital
rules, the FDIC is revising the FDIC DFAST-14A reporting templates
by adding data items, deleting data items, and redefining existing
data items. These changes will (1) provide additional information
to greatly enhance the ability of the FDIC to analyze the validity
and integrity of firms' projections, (2) improve comparability
across firms, and (3) increase consistency between the FR Y-14A
reporting templates and DFAST-14A reporting templates.
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